Update on what's been going on with podcast evaluation...

Rebecca and I have combined forces to tackle action research for our iPod LC with respect to the role of evaluation with podcasts. We have created a joint blog. Please add the new link to your blog. Thank you so much and have a super New Year!

[Link]www.arrk-action.blogspot.com

Just to clarify because I think there has been some confusion about what Rebecca and I are trying to do with a combined blog...we are doing independent research and posting our findings on the "evaluation" blog. The blog is housing our findings and our discussions about the findings. We are not researching together, only collaborating on an "evaluation" blog so that perhaps some of the research done by one of us may in turn help the other. According to How to Conduct Collaborative Action Research,"The process described in this book is based on teams of practitioners who have common interests and work together to investigate issues related to those interests," (Sagor, 1992). I think Rebecca had a great idea - from now on, we will put our names on the different postings so that our learning community can see who is posting what.

Please add the new link (www.arrk-action.blogspot.com) to your blog, but call it "Evaluation." That way when you click on the link from your blog, you will see the latest research we have discovered in the podcast evaluation world. I checked out a great article, "Evaluating podcasts for teaching and learning" that was posted to our CAB Conference which provided some excellent guidelines for evaluating the quality of podcasts as a teaching and learning resource. You can find that link in the iPod LC CAB Conference if you are interested in checking it out. I will be discussing that article more in depth on the "Evaluation" blog.